The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-02-25

Everybody is sgre d that the Cal
stove is an abominatlon and that il
ought to go. But somehow the travel
ing public has been left under the I'm
preston, 80 far as leading railway Off
cials could give that impression, thai
no substitute is possible; that if the
stove is not used the passengers mus,
fra re when the weather is cold Pre-.
sident King, of the Erie Railway, in 8
recent interview said: ITO save the
life Of one passenger on the Eie
would consent to any expense, but the
opportunity is not given" This simply
means, if it means anything, that Pre-
sident King does not know of anything
that eau be made to take the place OF
the stove. President ST. an, of the
Lackawanna Road, says that he suf.
fers no consideration TO stand between
his responsibility and a Coroner's in.
quest, but he learned many years age
that there was nothing better than
stoves for heating cars. Like the
Bourbons he seems to have learned
| nothing new since. President Depew.
of the New York Central, and Presi.
dent Smith, Of the Vermont Cntral
have been talking lately and both seem
convinced that the car stove will have
TO continue its deadly work for all they
can do to prevent it.
But is the assumption that there is
or can be no substitute for the cal
Stoya truo T. 10 ,you l,o,,, - a. GO
who are well informed that it is not.
The Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and
Pittsburg Road, connecting Dunkirk,
n. Y, with Titusville, Pa, has been
heating its cars with steam for foul
years. This system, which an engineer
who runs one of the trains on that road
says requires steam pressure of bu,
hive pounds even when the thermome.
ter registers from five to twenty de-
grees below zero, is in use on the Bos
ton and Albany Road and is about to
be adopted by the Cleveland, Colum
bus, Cincinnati and indianapolis and
the Milwaukee aud St. Paul Railways
The New York elevated cars are al-c
successfully heated by steam from tn,
locomotive boilers. The successful use
of steam on the above-named roads eff
fectually refutes the assertion that
steam heating is impossible.
The claim is made by some thai
while steam-heatlng may be success
on trains containing but three or foul
cars, it could not be employed on the
long trains run by the trunk lines with
out materially reducing the supply o
steam necessary to haul the train Tc
this objection the Northern Pacif,
Railway is about making a prautica
answer. That corporation is construct
ing an iron car containing boilers fo
steam and hot water and electric ma
chinery for lighting purposes. Thi
car is to be attached to the train imme
dlately in the rear of the. engine anC
will furnish the steam necessary fo
heating long train independrnt of tn,
locomotive boiler. Its electric ligh
| apparatus will also reduce the DANCE,
OF fire from the use of oil or gas an(
thus render the chances of coatiagra
ton in case of wreck very remote in
deed. What the Northern Pacific car
do in this respect any of the truns
lines may do. If the car stove be no
soon snpplanted by safer methods o
heating liz view of these practical dem
onstrations of the feasibility of the us,
of steam it will be mainly because tn,
railway companies are not willing t,
incur the expense necessary to the in
PRODUCTION of safe method. Phaa
Times.